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Quotes

A collection of scriptural meditations from Saints and Fathers of the Church.

If you lay down rules for yourself, do not disobey yourself; for he who cheats himself is self-deluded.

If you abandon God and are a slave to the passions, you cannot reap God's mercy.

All sin is due to sensual pleasure, all forgiveness to hardship and distress.

A wise man is one who pays attention to himself and is quick to separate himself from all defilement.

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

Whenever we enter the church and draw near to the heavenly mysteries, we ought to approach with all humility and fear, both because of the presence of the angelic powers and out of the reverence due to the sacred oblation; for as the Angels are said to have stood by the Lord's body when it lay in the tomb, so we must believe that they are present in the celebration of the Mysteries of His most sacred Body at the time of consecration.

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

You were commanded to keep the body as a servant, not to be unnaturally enslaved to its pleasures.

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

According to the degree to which the intellect is stripped of the passions, the Holy Spirit initiates the intellect into the mysteries of the age to be.

Worldly virtues promote human glory, spiritual virtues the glory of God.

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

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